We’re behind countries with proportional representation once again. We the electorate must heavily pressure the 2 big parties to pass electoral reform.
Honest question: do you work for Fair Vote? I get their emails, so I am down with the goal, but I see you explicitly link to the community (where you’re a mod) a lot.
No, I’m not currently signed up to volunteer with them as I really personally believe in the proportional representation reform and the organization has not endorsed the community.
That’s why the community has the unofficial disclaimer.
Do any of the other countries have Native communities living in Third World conditions with either bad water, little water or even no water?
I always find it hilarious that anyone ranks Canada in any First World metric when everyone just glosses over the fact that portions of the population live in complete poverty by design.
Freedom is not well-being. We’re free to express frustrations, demands and desires, however government doesn’t feel obligated to act on it… So scores are probably right (for the moment) but it does not translates to human rights charter being fully implemented/supported by government.
Canada needs to have a higher representation of indigenous representatives in government like New Zealand does however they still have issues with inequality.
Many indigenous people run, and win, under the Conservative and Liberal banner. You have clearly made your points regarding your feelings on those two parties, but you are also saying we need more representation.
What steps are you taking personally to see more representation in Government regarding indigenous people? Would you vote Conservative or Liberal to see more of that representation?
After looking at the stats, it seems Maori are rather fairly represented in terms of their population (25% in parliament vs 17% of general population), however the quality of life for Maori is still below that of other ethnicities in terms of health and life expectancy.
The current government is rather corrupt (seen through my viewpoint as a kiwi, not USA levels) and hasn’t done the Maori population any favours.
We may be more free, but not everything is rosy.
Imagine how bad others have it.
The freedom you’re looking for costs resources. They’re more about that $0, feelgud freedom.
For the record, I agree with you - I live in Manitoba, with the highest indigenous and Metis population and a poor province. First Nation’s people still suffer deep inequality and systemic barriers to success. That’s the disclaimer.
Canada has made a tremendous amount of progress socially and systemically in a very short period of time. 30 years ago residential schools were still operating. Many forms of discrimination were still legal and socially accepted. Open racism was much worse. Many more communities had no water supplies and no economic prospects, and no federal government support.
Canada has a long way to go - hundreds of years of oppression cannot be undone in 30 years. But the fact that we’re able to make progress so quickly is indicative of the fact that our society is free to push for these sorts of changes and see results. We have an Indigenous premier! That would have been entirely unthinkable just a third of a lifetime ago. Many forms of discrimination have been made illegal, federal funds have been directed for direct and indirect support, water plants have been built, languages are being taught and preserved, and the social perspectives are massively different. We have much work to do, but I don’t think we should be dismissive of the systems that have allowed us to do lots of work already.
Canada rank 31 in potable water. Not great but notable countries with worst ranking include:
Greese
Norway
Japan
USA
Switzerland
Italy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_access_to_clean_water
That’s a bit misleading. The same table says that 99.04% of the population of Canada has access to clean water. Those 30 ahead of us are only ahead by decimals of a percentage point.
It’s hilarious when you think of the fact that most of Canada is nothing but large areas of freshwater … especially in the province where I am from ‘Ontario’, an indigenous word that is in reference to ‘great lake’ or ‘sparkling water’, generally a reference to ‘fresh water’
It’s also frustrating in northern Ontario where we are literally surrounded by fresh water lakes and rivers, yet it is the same part of the country where many semi-remote and very remote communities either have little water, dirty water, tainted water or just no water.
We do have native populations that have been mistreated. I don’t think we’ve apologised for the eugenics.
Doesn’t really feel like it.
Why do you think so?
Both of our 2.5 parties bleed money without significantly improving quality of life for people at the bottom.
Housing crisis; cost of living; people in the vancouver DTES getting tormented by the police; indigenous people generally not treated well
I can see your point about the housing crisis in a way. It restricts people’s ability to have a place to live and, shelter. But does that really affect their freedom? Cost of living also is difficult but it’s not really preventing you from being “free” in the sense of the word. Or is it? I may be missing the point.
I’m completely ignorant to policing issues, especially in Vancouver. I generally don’t agree with law enforcement having too much control.
In my region of BC the reconciliation stuff has been very well received mostly. Indigenous people are a big part of the community and their culture has expanded into the school system, their businesses are successful. Housing projects for indigenous have also been going on constantly.
USA is in free fall
Good job! Prepare for influx of refugees
Just a note but I don’t believe Freedom House is the most accurate report (Look at Germany and how they are handling certain types of protests). But it’s sfill useful in many aspects, but it shouldn’t be the sole source of truth
How does USA score so high? It should be trending into transition territory since citizens have been detained without due process and people disagreeing with the administration disappear or having funding revoked to keep them hushed
How does USA score so high?
The period studied was June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024.
Long before Trump was re-elected.
Ah, next period will be interesting
I’m pretty skeptical about this result, but if you think about a perfect 100 points not as a marker of true ideal freedom and prosparity, but rather a degree of freedom from blatant easily quantifiable oppression (in other words reverse the numbers and mark it as the oppression index), then the result does sound more reasonable.
Canada has made great strides and is ahead in many ways, but that’s because so many major countries have such high degree of public oppression. We’re one of the best in a quite dystopic world, which really isn’t saying much when you are looking at ideas, and which also means we still have a massive amount to go.
wait until after election. Something tells me that two main contenders are eyeing to curb some freedoms to various degrees. Arguably Conservatives being on a more authoritarian track with Liberals tracking not too far behind
Something tells me that two main contenders are eyeing to curb some freedoms to various degrees. Arguably Conservatives being on a more authoritarian track with Liberals tracking not too far behind
What could possibly be telling you that a Carney led Liberal Government would lead to an Authoritarian Government?
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The way I see it, Carney has said he is going to implement austerity measures (hack and slash fiscally conservative policy, that is) to balance the budget instead of raising taxes on the 1% and actually trying to address the main issue of income inequality.
Show me where Carney said exactly this, and who is the 1%?
This will degrade public services and further increase the financial burden on the majority of Canadians.
I would be interested to see your math on this.
This will in turn continue to worsen public sentiment of the Liberals and eventually result in people turning to populist snakeoil salesmen like pp. Carney is at best kicking the can down the road a little bit.
Who do you think could currently do a better job than the person who has proven on several occasions that he is capable of doing the job?
Also, how does any of that answer my question?
What could possibly be telling you that a Carney led Liberal Government would lead to an Authoritarian Government?
Carney did claim recently $28B cuts will be comming. Liberal heavy handed behaviour towards unions smells of authoritarianism… so yeah freedom curbing is coming, we’re just not sure on packaging and potency
Huh, I thought I was going crazy, but it appears I’m not the only one who thought so. All the sources I can find right now seem to say he’s going to be running a pretty big deficit. Although it seems like the capital expenditures budget is going to be where a significantly higher portion of the budget will be spent.
Maybe the cut was solely to operating expenditures, even though the total to expenditures was increasing?
Carney did claim recently $28B cuts will be comming. Liberal heavy handed behaviour towards unions smells of authoritarianism… so yeah freedom curbing is coming, we’re just not sure on packaging and potency
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Source it.
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When did Carney do anything heavy handed as the leader towards unions? Pretty busy news cycle so apologies if I missed that.
Thank you for the source.
Carney didn’t deal with unions, Liberals did. I don’t think there’s a single instance on memory where they did not man-handle unions.
Now do the Conservatives, NDP, Greens, Bloc, and the PPC.
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You know what, I’m going to delete my post, because it was clearly misinformed. I’m certain I recall reading several articles stating that the Liberals intended to attempt to balance the budget by making cuts, but I can’t find any evidence to support that.
I’m not sure why I thought that, but regardless I appreciate the call out.
I get it. It is damn near impossible to get proper information this election cycle with all the poo being thrown.
Thanks for being so respectful about the call out, and I am happy it was able to point you in the right direction information wise.
Take care.
